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No crookery today, thank you very much
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 06/09/2015
» Today, believe it or not, Thailand celebrates National Anti-Corruption Day. For 24 hours, no one will be on the fiddle, or at least seen to be on the fiddle.
If the shoe fits, you’re wearing sneakers
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 12/07/2015
» Walking through one of Bangkok’s 689 shopping malls this week, I stumbled across a “Shoe Fair”. Actually, “Sneakers Fair” is more accurate because all items on display were sneakers, or what we English stubbornly call “trainers”.
Off to the movies … and a bit of tweeting
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 07/12/2014
» There has been considerable debate in the Bangkok social media concerning the merits of tweeting on the phone while sitting in a cinema. While this hardly ranks as the most important issue facing the kingdom in these demanding times, it does raise the sensitive problem of cinema etiquette.
You’re never alone on the streets of Bangkok
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 30/03/2014
» When I was first in Thailand, any expedition in Bangkok would almost certainly involve hearing the joyful greeting, “Hey you, farang, one baht,” from the street kids. You would hear it every time you went out and I even began to wonder if the first English lesson they were all taught at school was that “hey you, farang” was the proper way to greet a foreigner.
The verdict is yours on the new tourist court
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 15/09/2013
» Best news of the week is the launching of a tourist court in Pattaya to speed up proceedings in minor cases. It means the jet ski scammers, rip-off artists and general riff-raff will all be immediately brought to justice _ well that's the theory.
Police help crooks - to jail
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 24/06/2012
» One of the more intriguing stories of the week makes you wonder about the thought processes of certain criminals. Two motorcyclists were cruising around Chon Buri when their bikes ran out of fuel on a fairly deserted road. For two hours they tried to flag down passing vehicles, to no avail. I mean, would you stop for two motorcyclists on a remote road?
Hot and maybe a little bothered
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 06/05/2012
» It was Oscar Wilde who observed: ''conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative''. He might have had a point, but it means there have been a lot of unimaginative folk in Thailand lately. I can hardly recall a conversation in recent weeks without a reference to the heat. It definitely has been ''a bit on the warm side''.
Don't even try to judge these by their covers
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 08/04/2012
» It is generally agreed that a snappy title helps the sales of a book, while some titles can be a complete turnoff. It is with this in mind that the English literary magazine Bookseller for the past 30 years has been handing out an annual prize for the oddest book title. As you may have read in last Sunday's edition, this year's award went to Thailand's Saiyuud Diwong for her quaintly named offering, Cooking With Poo.